Australia's Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen remain at the top of the 49er leader board whilst those around them shuffled around after three races in front of a packed Nothe spectator area.

With three steady performances Peter Burling and Blair Tuke (NZL) closed the gap on the Australians to nine points having started the day 17 points behind and third overall. Burling said, "We need to stay close to the Australians and we did that. We just need to keep doing what we're doing and not get too excited."

On the way the Kiwis closed the gap Outteridge said, "We would love to put a few more races on them before the Medal Race. It seems like a bit of a two-horse race, but when you're out there it definitely doesn't feel like that. The Kiwis had a better day. We made a few errors but we didn't get punished too badly."

Finland's Lauri Lehtinen and Kalle Bask won the day's opening race and followed it up with an 11th and third to climb into the final podium spot with four fleet races remaining.

Sweden's Jonas von Geijer and Niclas Düring were fifth coming into the day but a disastrous day for them that saw them go 16-8-19 meant they fell down to ninth overall. Stevie Morrison and Ben Rhodes (GBR) were second but an equally unimpressive day meant they fell to fourth overall.

The 49ers enjoy a deserved day of rest tomorrow after five days of sailing. They resume on Sunday 5 August at 12:00 local time on the Weymouth Bay West course.

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Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

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Four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race celebrated rounding the venerated landmark of Cape Horn on Monday, a pleasure cruelly denied Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) after the Chinese boat's mast was broken early in a dramatic day on Leg 5.

The wind played dirty tricks all day in Palma on the sailors and race committees who had to juggle with big shifts and different pressure. From 4 to 20 knots, and reaching 40 in some gusts, the wind turned around the bay playing with everybody's nerves.

Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring great dreams, at 01:47:00hrs local time Guillermo Altadill and his talented, ever reliable Chilean co-skipper Jose Muñoz secured second placed in this third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the round the world race for two crew which left the Catalan capital on December 31st 2014.

Algoa Bay brought lighter conditions on Sunday, and after a postponement waiting for the wind to settle, the race got underway in 7 knots of breeze from the south-east. Ted Conrads and Brian Haines from the USA were the pathfinders, and opened up the gate for the fleet as they sailed out to the right-hand side of the course.